City is a hamlet in Powys, Wales.
Geography City is from the small village of Sarn (which is situated on the A489 road) and is on the slopes up to the Clun Forest and the English border, which is only to the southeast. The hamlet is situated in a small valley, at an elevation of between to above sea level.Ordnance Survey mapping
City is just off the minor road that leads from Sarn up to the Kerry Ridgeway and further to Bishop's Castle, a market town distant, in Shropshire. The two nearer towns however are historic Montgomery — away — and (the larger) Newtown, which is to the west.
At present, 11 dwellings comprise the core of the hamlet (though one is dilapidated) as well as three outlying isolated houses. There are a number of small, disused quarries in the area. Today the landscape is a mixture of woodland and pasture. The local economy is largely based on agriculture and forestry.
There is a Royal Mail post box with a daily collection Monday-Saturday,Dracos.co.uk Postboxes in SY16 and the hamlet's postcode is SY16 4HH.
Bachaethlon
A separate and historic settlement called Bachaethlon lies just to the north of City, on the other side of the Sarn-Bishop's Castle road.Geograph.org.uk SO2190 : The settlement at Bachaethlon Bachaethlon lies on more level ground, at an elevation of . It consists of 6 dwellings and many agricultural buildings. Anglicised spellings include "Bahaithlon" and "Bahaillon".
Governance The area forms part of the Kerry community (in the ward of Sarn)Powys County Council Kerry boundary review and for Powys County Council the electoral division/ward of Kerry. It falls in the historic county of Montgomeryshire.
Origin of the name The hamlet has never held the status of a city and "City" is not a recognisable Welsh word, so its origin is unclear. It is possible that the name came from an Anglicisation of Saith Tŷ, which is Welsh for "Seven Houses".
There is another place in Wales called City, in the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as City Dulas in Anglesey.
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